George Bush actually said...

Many Iraqi units conducted their own anti-terrorist operations and controlled their own battle space.

The United States will not abandon Iraq. We will not leave that country to the terrorists who attacked America and want to attack us again.

Americans have never retreated in the face of thugs and assassins, and we will not begin now.

The people of Tal Afar have shown that Iraqis do want peace and freedom. And no one should underestimate them.